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10 articles · Latest October 23, 2025

eScience Editorial Team·Oct 23, 2025

Why companies win by investing in Open-Source Software

Why would a for-profit company want to invest in Open-Source Software? Our collaborator, prof. Eric-Jan Wagenmakers will tell you why. CC-BY license from: Kojima T, Oishi K, Matsub...

eScience Editorial Team·Nov 14, 2024

Why should you care about reproducible code — and how to get started?

On 23 April 2024, the first ‘National Research Software Day’ took place in Hilversum, the Netherlands. During the unconference part of the program, Eduard Klapwijk ran the session...

Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez·Jan 26, 2023

An applied mathematician meets software engineering

How software engineering practices helped me bridge the gap between mathematics and other fields Photo by Mick Haupt on Unsplash From industry to academia Let’s go backward to 2015...

Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez·Oct 12, 2022

Mathematics and biology: a symbiosis?

Lessons learned, from a mathematician among biologists. Photo by ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unsplash Preamble In the period 2015–2019, I was hired as a mathematician by a biology d...

Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez·Mar 18, 2020

A mathematician in quarantine

Flattening the curve, and why you should stay at home Photo by History in HD on Unsplash I write this entry at the beginning of the COVID19 crisis in Europe. I am not a medical exp...

Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez·Dec 16, 2019

Are you a researcher? You may not know it yet, but good software skills are just what you need

The previous example may look like (and actually is) quite silly. But remember that code is alive. Something that today is a simple function tomorrow may be more complicated. Imagi...

Pablo Rodríguez-Sánchez·Dec 16, 2019

Experiences of a computational evangelist

What I’ve learned spreading the gospel of computational best practices among scientists Photo by NESA by Makers on Unsplash Just a few days ago, I gave a talk at the FAIR (Findable...

eScience Editorial Team·Jul 18, 2019

Using deep neural networks to understand molecular interactions

Photography: Michiel Wijnbergh | wijnbergh.nl Dr. Lars Ridder, Prof. Alexandre Bonvin, Dr. Nicolas Renaud, Dr. Li Xue, Dr. Sonja Georgievska The human body contains trillions of ce...

Elena Ranguelova·Sep 6, 2018

is an escience research engineer simply a computer scientist in disguise

My personal view on the differences between Computer Scientists and eScience Research Engineers Can a wolf change its mind by changing its coat? The origin of this proverbial quest...

eScience Editorial Team·Oct 18, 2017

teaching machines to recognize cancer

Jeroen de Ridder, Associate Professor at the University Medical Center Utrecht Photography: Elodie Burrillon | http://hucopix.com Jeroen de Ridder is Associate Professor at the Un...